Posted on 01/23/2007 8:38:55 PM PST by Soothesayer
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday he did not expect a U.S. attack on Iran because there were plenty of "wise people" in the United States who would not let it happen.
Iran and the United States are at loggerheads over Tehran's nuclear program, which Washington says is a cover for making bombs, and over Iraq, where U.S. officials say Iran is fuelling sectarian violence. Tehran denies both charges.
Washington says it wants to solve the nuclear standoff by diplomacy but has not ruled out strikes if that fails.
"They are not in a position to carry out that measure although they may like to ... because there are many wise people in America who will not let this happen," the president said in an interview on Iranian television.
The United States has sent a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf, a move analysts interpreted as a warning to Iran. U.S. officials say the step was taken to increase operational flexibility and to provide deterrence in the region.
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Nukes are as messy as it gets. Sure I agree the use of atomic weapons did save millions of Americans and Japanese ending WWII but today a first strike is not a good strategy in my opinion.
For America, we would end up international pariahs but more disconcerting is the justification for nuclear retaliation against us.
While an Islamo Nazis slipping a nuke into one of our ports worries me, a lot, I'm willing to take the risk we can prevent it as opposed to any first strike options that would ensure we would suffer retaliation.
Repulsing a conventional attack by Iran into Iraq I believe would result in a campaign that would be over so fast the anti war left could hardly mount a coherent protest. In fact I believe an Iranian aggression of significant conventional forces into Iraq would galvanize American support for our operations in that part of the world.
Then again, maybe we won't need to attack Iran if a FR post I saw a few weeks ago was correct.
It stated that someone received inside information that the current grand mullah, Kamenei was dying of cancer and was not expected to last throught the spring. Also it said that Aminanutjob had gotten a year knocked off his term of office. Perhaps internal forces will take care of the Iran problem. Does anyone have any updates on the above info?
very "Wise" thinking
By "wise," he means "useful idiots."
Just outside of Jefferson City here.
No, Ahmadinijad is hoping for Barak Hussein Obama to be president in 2008.
Don't forget that Syria would also send in forces to assist the sunnis.
Really, what is the difference? A Demonrat is a Demonrat and they are our enemies' best friends.
It is the fact that Obama is a radical Islamist.
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